Partnership Director - France

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About us

We are Insider, a B2B SaaS company that drives growth for its clients around the world. How are we achieving this? We are the #1 AI-native platform for Customer Experience and Marketing—offers marketers a single platform to deliver unique experiences per person, drive profitable growth, and unleash peak productivity and efficiency. Our platform connects data across channels, predicts future behavior with AI, and individualizes experiences from a single platform.

We have just celebrated our $500M Series E funding round, led by General Atlantic. Before this, we’ve unlocked unicorn status following our Series D round. We are backed by top-notch investors, including Sequoia Capital, QIA, Riverwood, and Endeavor Catalyst, and trusted by 1200+ brands from high-growth startups to the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Coca-Cola, Nike, L’Oreal, Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Nestle, Nissan, Lenovo, Puma, IKEA, Allianz, Dominos, CNN, and the list goes on.

Having unlocked unicorn status, Insider was congratulated for becoming one of the only woman-founded, women-led B2B SaaS unicorns in the world, to achieve $200M in CARR (Committed Annual Recurring Revenue). Insider was named a leader in The Forrester Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign Management 2021, and Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Omnichannel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises 2023 Assessment. The company has been recognized in The Top 1% of all software companies worldwide in G2’s 2024 Software Awards, and named in The Top 10 Best Software Products with the most #1 rankings alongside other software legends like Google, Zoom, and Monday.com. According to G2’s Spring’24 reports. Insider is also the #1 G2 Leader in 6+ categories, including Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Personalization Engines, Personalization Software, Mobile Marketing, Customer Journey Analytics, and e-commerce Personalization.

When our team founded Insider, they not only sought to create a product company but also to build the most socially progressive technology community in the world. Through our corporate social responsibility initiatives like 100Projects SheCodes, SheLeads, and SheMarkables, our community has committed to scaling its impact into our communities across 27+ countries, spearheading transformative projects in areas such as health, education, farming, animal rights, and increasing the proportional representation of women in STEM careers. 

Behind all these achievements, there is an exceptionally talented and passionate team across 27+ countries that moves fast and agile, creates cutting-edge products, and focuses on making an impact. If you want to join us on this journey, just keep reading.

The Role

The Partnership Director will drive Insider’s growth through supporting formation and management of mutually beneficial commercial relationships with Insider’s Channel Partners (both Solution Partners and Technology Partners) in the EU South region including France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Central & Eastern Europe.

You will work cross-functionally across marketing, sales, onboarding and customer success teams, to help in the execution of go-to-market (GTM) partnership strategies and programs to drive selection, onboarding and enablement, and driving business through and with channel partners (System Integrators, Digital Agencies, Full Service Consultancies & Managed Service Providers) in your region. You will also drive GTM activities with our high priority Technology Partners (ISVs - Independent Software Vendors) in the region. This role requires a thorough understanding of Insider's product capabilities, sales processes and partner ecosystem to ensure our GTM engine is primed and enabled to collaborate with strategic partners and drive mutual growth.

Responsibilities are categorized into three broad categories. Selection, Onboarding and Transacting with the Solution Partners in addition to planning & execution of GTM activities with Technology Partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys new challenges that test their organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills. They flourish in a team environment and work enthusiastically with colleagues outside the immediate team to achieve organizational goals.

Skills & Requirements:

  • BS/BA degree required.
  • 8+ years of experience in partner sales and business development.
  • Previous leadership experience working for a SaaS (Software as a Service) company and managing relationships with System Integrators, Digital Agencies, Full Service Consultancies, Managed Service Providers & ISVs.
  • fluent in B2B SaaS business models.
  • High-level business acumen.
  • High analytical skills and ability to quickly understand complex issues and develop/apply simplifying frameworks to facilitate broader organizational understanding, decision-making and action.
  • Deep understanding of Solution Selling.
  • Output oriented with very strong ability to personally create high quality, customer-facing content including presentations and datasheets.
  • Excellent project management skills; able to effectively manage multiple ongoing projects to meet deadlines.
  • Experience in marketing technology space preferred but not required.
  • Job Description:

  • Work with Insider global offices to continually improve their partnership practice, grow their portfolio of partners, create go-to-market plans, drive expansion opportunities, and manage and grow the partnership.
  • Generate leads & manage your pipeline generated through and with your solution partners.
  • Develop business plans to ensure agency-wide adoption and expansion of Insider to the partners' clients.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to grow Channels for Insider: Sales, Marketing, Onboarding and Customer Success Teams.
  • Negotiate partnership terms and present Insider Partner Program.

  • We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.

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